My son Noah is reticent to commit to a family vacation outside the state when it is "nice" in North Dakota. Noah's "nice"translates to days that are not part of North Dakota's winter. He figures if he is living with up to six months of cold, ice and snow he needs to appreciate all the "nice" [...]
I receive a daily email from a website called Hometalk. Hometalk is a site that hosts a collection of home and garden DIY projects. Their daily emails have a collection of a dozen or so DIY projects that they have collected from crafty folks from around the world that have repurposed everything from coffee stirrers to pennies. [...]
In the conversation in her head she remarks, "I am fascinated by the new year phenomenon. Why do people place so much emphasis on the power of, and potential for, change at the outset of the new calendar year?" Albeit, she is quickly distracted by a burning urge to ready her brand new journal to [...]
I visited Fargo Cass Public Health a couple of weeks ago at their relatively new location (since August last year) on 25th Street South. Locals may recall that Public Health spent many years downtown before the move to the former Sunmart location off 13th Avenue. I really like their new location, it is bright and cheery and very easy [...]
I never fully trust things I see or hear before my first cup of morning coffee. It takes some caffeine infusion to right my senses and sharpen my mind. As such, when I looked out my kitchen window yesterday morning and saw a squirrel scamper out of my garden and up and over the neighbor's [...]
You would be hard-pressed to find someone who loves spinach salads more than I do. After years of focused devotion to spinach, I find it difficult to eat any other salad greens. Every now and then I will eat romaine, but it is always a sloppy second to spinach (sorry Romaine lovers). Fortunately, spinach is [...]
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